Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch… — Robert Rauschenberg
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt
I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as… — George Strait
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came… — Clifford D. Simak
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine… — Leon Krier
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,… — Joy Harjo
But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to… — Sandra Cisneros
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
The challenges I have facedâ€”among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single motherâ€”are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me… — Sonia Sotomayor
While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials… — Harriet Miers
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon… — Swami Vivekananda
The kernel, the soulâ€”let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterancesâ€”is plagiarism, — Jonathan Lethem
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. — Ernest Hemingway
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not… — Peter Zumthor
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work… — Jean Nouvel
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. — Shigeru Ban
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that,… — Kathy Acker
The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not… — Robert Bresson

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